New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-17
LIFE AT SARATOGA.
SOME VIEWS ON POLITICS.
<.x,Na THE Rs-RAcING-cosTrMrs OF TIL
PERIOD.


Every hot day in The city drives whole traioads OF
oeople here Saratoga remar kabie sight That's the
0eope who como here slgh. Anu thhx thes
come TO Saratoga chiefly .or the fun OF looking 81 eacf
other. Great fun 1t is, too The henon INST tney
come here for the waters Is pretty wen played ont
tbongb II is sti TO drink the waters, and
almost every one does it. People will endure any
amount of discomfort for the sake OF being In the
fashion. but 10 SEQ the way they drink these salty
aulphur1c, potashy, b-chromate of sodlac, muddy
warm waters Is most divcrting. Fashionable elderly
ladies' with faces like moons bodies like boilers and
PHYSIQUE enough TO equip company OF Dragons but
WHO must be in the fashion die, may be seen every
morning or evening at the various springs wrestling
with stuff that makes them spluter and hiccough in
most unhappy and undignifod way Young women
como too, and pretty girls-dear lovely things who
ought to live de cologne and altar OF roses-bu
il Ia the tbicg TO live rusty water that suggests
mackerel barrel old SHOE ana they brace up to
the fashion heroically. Conscientious manmas who
have brought their tat little babies from the bad
air OF the city feed them to the black flee and
quitoes OF the Adrondacks and who stopping here
for tho waters" pour them down their poor little
babies tbroats till the miserable creatures look lie raw
beesteak But they keep in the fashion and that Is
the chief end of life Perhaps the most interesting OF
these cstbartic opers Is the who does IL scienth-
calIy who has ira, eed abroad and has been under
treatment at Baden" and who knows therefore Just
how much and when, in what sips and win wnss
stoma ,bc conditions to take the stuh He sits by with
u
and upon the poor creatures who
nav their debt to fashion with copious gulp. He
raises his glass to bis lips and touches bis tongue to
the fluid Then he holds IL of and peers into 1t with
critical eve Then he takes little taste and smaeks
his lips and breathes long and deep. Then he drinks
not good honest swallow, but wee little one, after
which he smacks his lies more and discusses the
composition of the dose with the man that sells It,
One of them told the spring man that he thought there
was little H2SOa in it, but tho man said he thought
To- xritlt faun At
acid.
There are waters that make YOU sleep and waters
that wake YOU up; there are waters that keep you
strong and waters that knock you dow there are
waters that make you walk and waters that keep you
still Ia fact il you will only tell the man what you
prefer to do, he viii give you water that will make
you 90 right Of and do it, Ii IT doesn't. then there's
q hitch in your liver, for which, OF course, the man
can't hold himself responsible.
There is goud deal OF monotony about lite in Sara
toca Yod g-s M in time to hear the mrsic at the
hotels. which begin. at 1890. You breakfast of
course, and drink some muddy ws.er hen You feel
sick and lie down. Then the music begins and you
take seat on tie piazza and Talk. You always walt
10 talk till tue music starts When the orchestfs mas
finally ceased playing. you make calls II you are
woman and sad and smoke il you are man No
matter which YOU are, Just before dinner you drink
some more muddy water and feel worse. Then you
dine and after dinner you sleep. You waken IN time
to drive before tea, for you go TO bed Oh tea at
Saratoga Everybody drives, and the avenues are
alive with praucing curvetng horses Alter tea,
wander about the hotels listen to the music and chat
Then you retire, and thus yoI serve your day and
generation. Tho botels well conducted and are
making the most extensive arrangements possible.
The Grand Union which IL under the same manage
nent as the Park Avenue aid the Metropolitan IN
New-York, and IS the biggest hotel in the world. is
even now filed with a large aud delightful society,
chiefly from New-York and Boston. The politicians
stop usually at the United States Hotel The orches
tras hold most important relation to hotel lite aud
during the morrlag and evening hours of their per-
Torrance the piazzas crowded with Denpie though
only guests and persons they bring with them are per-
United on the pisz2as Lothian OF Boston, conducts
the band at the Grand Union, and Stub, Of New-York
at the States"
The races this year VII be remarkable n many re-
,pects. They begin July 81, and altogether there
will not be lever than 500 horses entered TOR the
various events of the racing season. Already many
horses and Jockeys are on the grounds, and the num-
Der is daily increasing. Such additions have been
made to the flyers expected TO partic to require
OF the association the erection OF two new stables.
Each of these will accommodate sixty eight horses
Bourke Cochran, not the statesman but the steed Is
here from ex-Mayor Nolans st sbles with nine less
distin guished bat hopeful eompanoos. Glenarm the
Montreal stecplechnser. and his companion, Marina
duke, enjoying the Saratoga breezes and getting
themselves ready tor the tray. When the Chicago
meeting closes the Hon. Lucky" Baldwin will arrive
here with Volane and the other noted denzens OF his
stable The winner OF last year Subur TIoabadour
will some from N )nmouth Park, and August Belmont
will have several Of his hopeful horses hers from Long
Island. good many new events have been prepared
and many of the old stakes are to be heavily increased
The Trayers Stakes has been made stronger. an d
81 .0OO has been pas the BeAverwyck Stakes.
Ed Kesrney has sweed his popularity by creating
new purse OF 81 900 for steeplechasers, which he
has christensd the HelterSkeltei Stakes Somebody
who is modest about making his identity known bas
added 81 800 to the Merchants Stakes and the man
agsrs. with these encouragements, tee justiiea III
making sammy announcements. The oookmskers are
abundant
There has beer good deal of brilliant dressing at
The hotels and among the coitagers the season has
advanced though OF the costumes worn has been
able feat OF dressmaking Black lace dresses
prevail most OF them trimmed with watered silk, and
having silk sash even though the silk Is not other
wise used in them. Many white dresses heavily trim
med with gold brad are TO be seen, most OF them
being of cashmere nuns yelling One OF the notable
costumes g soft gray silk with baby aist lied with
gray silk sash frnged brosdly. The dress Is high In
the neck and sleeves which adorned with pale
pink ruchng The skirt is full and perfectly plain
and the hat broad white Leghorn, dropping on ono
side and furnished with an exquisite white osticf
plume conn .etes a dainty and picturesque dress
A costanc somewhat suggestive OF the " Shepherd
ess ut fsucy dress party 10 occasionally seen or
the cottage yersndas and at the Grand Union Hotel
The pettieoat is of white silk An Overlapping OF
gre-n SILK is drawn aside on the right to show
broad panel of white Half shoes with big black
buekles old-tashioned and square, and broad dark
hat profusey trimmed with worn with the
dress. One of the most striking evening" toilets is
white nuS's -eng The skirt Is side-pleated from
the waist it'll marrow back -drspng. The waist is
q basque cut peek boo," silly name by the way
for a very pretty eject That which made the dress
a scarf OF the nuns yelling. one end OF
which fastened in with toe shoulder and the
full sleeve OF white null and which then tell straight
over the bust to the bottom OF the skirt The effect OF
this was to torn a background upon which the
wearers pretty figure was daiutsly 0dtliued. The
from view showed simply graceiul drspine